Tonight we go back to using a recipe from The Joy of Japanese Cooking. This was super simple and easy to make but for some reason I always felt intimidated by the idea of making tempura. Now that I’ve made my very first attempt I want to try making different types of tempura. Yam tempura [...]
Archive for July, 2009
International Cusine Day Three: Shrimp Tempura
July 10, 2009
Quick Shrimp Pasta
July 10, 2009
It’s been one of those days where I’m so focused on a project that I feel too lazy to make lunch and my brain chooses to ignore the loud rumblings coming from my belly. I finally decided to appease my hunger and I quickly prepared a shrimp pasta dish. Initially I was just going to [...]
International Cuisine Day Two: Münsterland Tomato Soup with Bacon
July 10, 2009
Before making this dish I did question the origin of the classic tomato soup. I still don’t have a specific answer so I’m just going to assume that tomato soup has been around since Jesus broke bread at the Last Supper. I’m also going to assume it’s a dish known everywhere with different variations depending [...]
International Cuisine Day One: Chicken Teriyaki
July 8, 2009
It’s been a few days since I made a semi-decent dinner for Jay and myself. I’ve been either busy or battling with extreme bouts of laziness that have me scrambling for Pizza Pops and instant noodles when hunger strikes. Today, however, the laziness that had been plaguing my free time finally went on vacation. I [...]
The Spice Update
July 3, 2009
We have the canisters for our spices and I’ve labelled them all. Now all I need to do is find a piece of sheet metal large enough to fit all the spices but not so large that it doesn’t fit on the side of our kitchen cabinet. At the moment, the canisters are hanging out [...]
Iced tea, pizza and cookies
July 2, 2009
It was Canada Day yesterday and Jay and I decided to walk through High Park where our local MP was hosting a picnic. We only stayed long enough to watch a group of belly dancers perform their dance routine before we continued our walk toward the lake. It was a gorgeous day and I was [...]
